Defense Real Estate

The process carried out within the Defense Department to complete the procurement process for awarding utilities privatization contracts is taking too long, the House Armed Services Committee says in report language attached to the chairman’s mark of the fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill. In some instances it has taken more than five years from initial

Defense officials plan to launch a task force in July to assess the business case for consolidating the military’s three exchange services and the Defense Commissary Agency, and develop integration plans for a new organization. By reducing overhead and operating expenses, a single organization offers the greatest potential for sustaining defense resale activities, according to

In an attempt to shore up the recapitalization accounts of privatized housing projects, the portion of the fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill approved last week by the House Armed Services’ Military Personnel Subcommittee would require DOD to make up the shortfall in revenue developers receive from service members as a result of a recent policy

The House Armed Services’ Readiness Subcommittee is asking the Navy and Air Force for details on plans to consolidate and privatize their on-base lodging, according to report language in the panel’s mark of the fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill. The subcommittee directs the services to brief it by March 1, 2019, on how they will

The military’s three exchange services are resisting a Pentagon proposal to merge them with the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) over concerns it would jeopardize their success in operating base department stores and other retail outlets, and generating profits to support morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) programs. DOD’s proposal to form a single military resale organization

With the prospect of a new BRAC round seemingly off the table for the time being, Congress should offer the Pentagon some authority to divest unneeded property, according to a commentary in Defense One by two officials from Business Executives for National Security. A relaxing of restrictions on the DOD’s ability to transfer real estate